School: Medical and Health Sciences

This unit information may be updated and amended immediately prior to semester. To ensure you have the correct outline, please check it again at the beginning of semester.

Your unit may be subject to government or third party COVID-19 vaccination requirements. Please consider this before enrolling in this unit, and speak with the unit coordinator if this raises any concerns.

  • Unit Title

    Occupational Hygiene Sampling and Study Design
  • Unit Code

    OHS6176
  • Year

    2022
  • Enrolment Period

    1
  • Version

    3
  • Credit Points

    20
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    Online
  • Unit Coordinator

    Mrs Adelle LIEBENBERG

Description

Workers may be exposed to a variety of chemical, physical and biological hazards. A risk-based approach to the prevention of harm, requires a series of workplace exposure assessments to be conducted by an occupational hygienist. This unit covers advanced study design of occupational hygiene sampling strategies in particular the development of strategies to evaluate mixed hazard exposures across a variety of workplaces, statistical grouping and analysis of survey results. Students will learn about the development of best practice occupational hygiene monitoring protocols and developing unbiased surveys in a scientifically rigorous way.

Equivalent Rule

Unit was previously coded HST5176.

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Design a sampling strategy to determine exposure to a range of workplace occupational health hazards.
  2. Use standard occupational hygiene modelling packages to statistically analyse and appropriately interpret exposure data.
  3. Present sampling strategy, data analysis, findings and outcomes to professional workplace audiences.
  4. Recommend appropriate improvements to occupational health hazard sampling strategies.
  5. Use self-reflective practices to evaluate personal and professional knowledge and behaviours.

Unit Content

  1. Introduction to Exposure Assessment
  2. Exposure Assessment
  3. Similar Exposure Groups
  4. Exposure Monitoring Strategies
  5. Designing an Exposure Monitoring Program
  6. Statistical Analysis and Interpretation of Results
  7. Exposure to Multiple Contaminants
  8. Health Hazard Control
  9. Reassessment of Exposures

Learning Experience

Students will engage in learning experiences via ECU’s LMS as well as additional ECU learning technologies

Additional Learning Experience Information

Online delivery is supported by online discussion groups, learning modules and prescribed texts. Students will present live, on-line, to other students in the class.

Assessment

GS1 GRADING SCHEMA 1 Used for standard coursework units

Students please note: The marks and grades received by students on assessments may be subject to further moderation. All marks and grades are to be considered provisional until endorsed by the relevant School Progression Panel.

ONLINE
TypeDescriptionValue
AssignmentDevelopment of a Sampling Strategy 40%
PresentationData Analysis and Sampling Strategy Presentation 50%
Reflective PracticeReflection Paper on the Data Analysis and Sampling Strategy Presentation10%

Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005)

For the purposes of considering a request for Reasonable Adjustments under the Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005), inherent requirements for this subject are articulated in the Unit Description, Learning Outcomes and Assessment Requirements of this entry. The University is dedicated to provide support to those with special requirements. Further details on the support for students with disabilities or medical conditions can be found at the Access and Inclusion website.

Academic Integrity

Integrity is a core value at Edith Cowan University, and it is expected that ECU students complete their assessment tasks honestly and with acknowledgement of other people's work. This means that assessment tasks must be completed individually (unless it is an authorised group assessment task) and any sources used must be referenced.

Breaches of academic integrity can include:

Plagiarism

Copying the words, ideas or creative works of other people, without referencing in accordance with stated University requirements. Students need to seek approval from the Unit Coordinator within the first week of study if they intend to use some of their previous work in an assessment task (self-plagiarism).

Unauthorised collaboration (collusion)

Working with other students and submitting the same or substantially similar work or portions of work when an individual submission was required. This includes students knowingly providing others with copies of their own work to use in the same or similar assessment task(s).

Contract cheating

Organising a friend, a family member, another student or an external person or organisation (e.g. through an online website) to complete or substantially edit or refine part or all of an assessment task(s) on their behalf.

Cheating in an exam

Using or having access to unauthorised materials in an exam or test.

Serious outcomes may be imposed if a student is found to have committed one of these breaches, up to and including expulsion from the University for repeated or serious acts.

ECU's policies and more information about academic integrity can be found on the student academic integrity website.

All commencing ECU students are required to complete the Academic Integrity Module.

Assessment Extension

In some circumstances, Students may apply to their Unit Coordinator to extend the due date of their Assessment Task(s) in accordance with ECU's Assessment, Examination and Moderation Procedures - for more information visit https://askus2.ecu.edu.au/s/article/000001386.

Special Consideration

Students may apply for Special Consideration in respect of a final unit grade, where their achievement was affected by Exceptional Circumstances as set out in the Assessment, Examination and Moderation Procedures - for more information visit https://askus2.ecu.edu.au/s/article/000003318.

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School: Medical and Health Sciences

This unit information may be updated and amended immediately prior to semester. To ensure you have the correct outline, please check it again at the beginning of semester.

Your unit may be subject to government or third party COVID-19 vaccination requirements. Please consider this before enrolling in this unit, and speak with the unit coordinator if this raises any concerns.

  • Unit Title

    Occupational Hygiene Sampling and Study Design
  • Unit Code

    OHS6176
  • Year

    2022
  • Enrolment Period

    2
  • Version

    3
  • Credit Points

    20
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    Online
  • Unit Coordinator

    Mrs Adelle LIEBENBERG

Description

Workers may be exposed to a variety of chemical, physical and biological hazards. A risk-based approach to the prevention of harm, requires a series of workplace exposure assessments to be conducted by an occupational hygienist. This unit covers advanced study design of occupational hygiene sampling strategies in particular the development of strategies to evaluate mixed hazard exposures across a variety of workplaces, statistical grouping and analysis of survey results. Students will learn about the development of best practice occupational hygiene monitoring protocols and developing unbiased surveys in a scientifically rigorous way.

Equivalent Rule

Unit was previously coded HST5176.

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Design a sampling strategy to determine exposure to a range of workplace occupational health hazards.
  2. Use standard occupational hygiene modelling packages to statistically analyse and appropriately interpret exposure data.
  3. Present sampling strategy, data analysis, findings and outcomes to professional workplace audiences.
  4. Recommend appropriate improvements to occupational health hazard sampling strategies.
  5. Use self-reflective practices to evaluate personal and professional knowledge and behaviours.

Unit Content

  1. Introduction to Exposure Assessment
  2. Exposure Assessment
  3. Similar Exposure Groups
  4. Exposure Monitoring Strategies
  5. Designing an Exposure Monitoring Program
  6. Statistical Analysis and Interpretation of Results
  7. Exposure to Multiple Contaminants
  8. Health Hazard Control
  9. Reassessment of Exposures

Learning Experience

Students will engage in learning experiences via ECU’s LMS as well as additional ECU learning technologies

Additional Learning Experience Information

Online delivery is supported by online discussion groups, learning modules and prescribed texts. Students will present live, on-line, to other students in the class.

Assessment

GS1 GRADING SCHEMA 1 Used for standard coursework units

Students please note: The marks and grades received by students on assessments may be subject to further moderation. All marks and grades are to be considered provisional until endorsed by the relevant School Progression Panel.

ONLINE
TypeDescriptionValue
AssignmentDevelopment of a Sampling Strategy 40%
PresentationData Analysis and Sampling Strategy Presentation 50%
Reflective PracticeReflection Paper on the Data Analysis and Sampling Strategy Presentation10%

Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005)

For the purposes of considering a request for Reasonable Adjustments under the Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005), inherent requirements for this subject are articulated in the Unit Description, Learning Outcomes and Assessment Requirements of this entry. The University is dedicated to provide support to those with special requirements. Further details on the support for students with disabilities or medical conditions can be found at the Access and Inclusion website.

Academic Integrity

Integrity is a core value at Edith Cowan University, and it is expected that ECU students complete their assessment tasks honestly and with acknowledgement of other people's work. This means that assessment tasks must be completed individually (unless it is an authorised group assessment task) and any sources used must be referenced.

Breaches of academic integrity can include:

Plagiarism

Copying the words, ideas or creative works of other people, without referencing in accordance with stated University requirements. Students need to seek approval from the Unit Coordinator within the first week of study if they intend to use some of their previous work in an assessment task (self-plagiarism).

Unauthorised collaboration (collusion)

Working with other students and submitting the same or substantially similar work or portions of work when an individual submission was required. This includes students knowingly providing others with copies of their own work to use in the same or similar assessment task(s).

Contract cheating

Organising a friend, a family member, another student or an external person or organisation (e.g. through an online website) to complete or substantially edit or refine part or all of an assessment task(s) on their behalf.

Cheating in an exam

Using or having access to unauthorised materials in an exam or test.

Serious outcomes may be imposed if a student is found to have committed one of these breaches, up to and including expulsion from the University for repeated or serious acts.

ECU's policies and more information about academic integrity can be found on the student academic integrity website.

All commencing ECU students are required to complete the Academic Integrity Module.

Assessment Extension

In some circumstances, Students may apply to their Unit Coordinator to extend the due date of their Assessment Task(s) in accordance with ECU's Assessment, Examination and Moderation Procedures - for more information visit https://askus2.ecu.edu.au/s/article/000001386.

Special Consideration

Students may apply for Special Consideration in respect of a final unit grade, where their achievement was affected by Exceptional Circumstances as set out in the Assessment, Examination and Moderation Procedures - for more information visit https://askus2.ecu.edu.au/s/article/000003318.

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